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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Margin Call might have lost me completely if it weren't for Spacey, who delivers his meatiest, most nuanced work in years. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Spacey does some of the best work we've seen from him in a while as a once-confident man who's now questioning everything upon which he built his cushy life. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The severe imbalance between argot and emotion makes it impossible to care much about most of what we see. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: The atmosphere is evocative and the story reasonably tense, but the movie as a whole is surprisingly dry... Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It is a tale of greed, vanity, myopia and expediency that is all the more damning for its refusal to moralize. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Escalation is the main thing Margin Call has going for it, as more substantial actors are trotted out to have their way with Chandor's realistic-sounding boardroom dialogue. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: A hell of a picture. And shrewd. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Chilling and enjoyable in unequal measure. Entertainment predominates, but entertainment with smarts, and a well-honed edge. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A taut, smart and remarkably timely thriller... Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: [It] brings this dangerous numbers game back to the trading-floor desktops and mahogany-covered conference tables where it belongs. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: A terrific piece of entertainment. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The real strength of '[Chandor's] debut feature is how persuasively it depicts the fishbowl world of high finance, whose executives seem incapable of seeing past their towering salaries and privileged lives. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "Margin Call" is on the facile side, but it's well-crafted and smartly acted. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's all fairly entertaining but also confusing for anybody who doesn't get the Wall Street lingo. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Writer-director J.C. Chandor then plunges us into a dark night of quietly nasty reckoning as it becomes clear to the firm's honchos that the calamitous risk assessments one of their own was working on might well be true. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: That Chandor manages to find the blood in each character is accomplishment enough; that he manages to make his drama both relevant and timeless portends a bright future indeed. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It captures how our financial institutions became secret havens to a selfishness so undiluted it was sociopathic. You watch this drama of big money with a tingle of toxic fascination. Read more
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: Topical drama about the financial crisis lacks the visceral punch to grab an audience. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: "Margin Call" takes ripped-from-the-headlines events and dramatizes them for all they're worth. Which turns out to be quite a lot. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Margin Call is the movie Oliver Stone tried to make with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, only a lot less flashy and melodramatic -- and sharper, smarter and with a much stronger cast. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Margin Call is one of the strongest American films of the year and easily the best Wall Street movie ever made. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It sees its characters not as villains but, simply, as business people - with all that means. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: How good is J.C. Chandor's debut? So good I was ready to buy what he was selling even though I didn't entirely understand it. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Though fictionalized and understated, "Margin Call'' effectively voices the same outrage that the Occupy Wall Street movement is so loudly proclaiming. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: As a movie, it's so tightly framed you gasp from claustrophobia. As a film of cryptic boredom, I cannot believe the actors were able to say their lines without cue cards. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Margin Call is rife with smart, sharp performances. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Margin Call may not be telling things exactly as they were, but it's close enough to provide an uncomfortable glimpse behind the curtain. And it's an engrossing "thinking" thriller as well. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: "Margin Call" employs an excellent cast who can make financial talk into compelling dialogue. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Margin Call is an explosive drama that speaks lucidly and scarily to the times we live in. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Chandor's impressive debut film does indeed capture its cast of high-powered bankers as human beings, and features one of Kevin Spacey's best screen performances as the firm's middle-aged ace salesman. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: This may be the first post-2008 feature film to dramatize the crisis itself, rather than using it as a backdrop for an outraged harangue against the banks. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It opens with a bloodbath, builds to an apocalypse and ends with a gravedigger doggedly excavating the earth. By the time the story is told, the blood -- sorry, red ink -- is surging down long corridors like a tidal wave. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Within the artful fluctuations of heroism and villainy, Spacey stands out with a performance that evokes memories of "Glengarry Glen Ross." Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: Chandor's film is not a tale of the plots and counterplots of conniving bankers. It is a disaster movie, in which even the Masters of the Universe are running for their lives. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Spacey is mesmerizing as Sam, a weary, aging lion losing his appetite for antelope. And Irons plays the villain with magisterial ease. Read more
Leah Rozen, TheWrap: There are a lot of sharp performances here, a chief pleasure of the film. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Chandor proffers a cross-section of a Lehman Brothers-esque company as the realisation dawns that sub-prime speculation has brought the market to an ominous tipping point. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's a realistic take on what happens when high-flying money speculators suddenly hit ground. It's also a great calling card for J.C. Chandor, the writer/director making his feature debut. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Chandor's debut feature audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts and their bosses, a gambit that fails... largely because his characters are little more than mouthpieces for blunt speechifying and Mamet-like outbursts Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A smart, harrowing and mordant drama set inside a fictional Wall Street firm at the trip-wire moment just before the 2008 financial collapse. Read more